Marked words appear in this translation and in no other English translation of this verse. Common small words and older spellings are not marked. The marks show where the wording differs, not where the meaning does.
Talal Itani· published 2012
No soul can die except by God's leave, at a predetermined time. Whoever desires the reward of the world, We will give him some of it; and whoever desires the reward of the Hereafter, We will give him some of it; and We will reward the appreciative.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
No soul can ever die except by Allah's leave and at a term appointed. Whoso desireth the reward of the world, We bestow on him thereof; and whoso desireth the reward of the Hereafter, We bestow on him thereof. We shall reward the thankful
Sources
Translation Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran·Public domain — copyright term expired
Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran·1930 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work
·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
Edward Henry Palmer1840–1882 · published 1880
It is not for any soul to die, save by God's permission written down for an appointed time; but he who wishes for the reward of this world we will give him of it, and he who wishes for the reward of the future we will give him of it, and we will recompense the grateful
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
No one can die except by God's permission, according to the Book that fixeth the term of life. He who desireth the recompense of this world, we will give him thereof; And he who desireth the recompense of the nextlife, we will give him thereof! And we will certainly reward the thankful
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
No soul can die unless by the permission of God, according to what is written in the book containing the determinations of things. And whoso chooseth the reward of this world, we will give him thereof: But whoso chooseth the reward of the world to come, we will give him thereof; and we will surely reward the thankful
Sources
Translation George Sale, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
George Sale, English translation of the Qur'an·1734 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work
·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
Other languages (18)Shqip · Albanian
Askush nuk vdes përveçse me vendimin e Allahut dhe në kohë të caktuar. Kush synon mirësitë e kësaj bote, Ne do t'i japim atij prej saj, e, kush synon shpërblimin e botës tjetër, Ne do t'ia japim atë. Ne do t'i shpërblejmë mirënjohësit.
Translated by the team of Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.5
বাংলা · Bengali
আল্লাহর অনুমতি ছাড়া কোন প্রাণীই মরতে পারে না। কারণ মৃত্যুর সময় সুনির্ধারিত। যে ব্যক্তি পার্থিব পুরস্কার চায়, আমি তাকে তা দিয়ে দেই(৮০) এবং যে ব্যক্তি আখিরাতের পুরস্কার চায়, আমি তাকে তা দিয়ে দিবো। আর অচিরেই আমি কৃতজ্ঞদেরকে পুরস্কার প্রদান করবো।
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Bosanski · Bosnian
Nijedna osoba neće umrijeti bez određenja Allahovog, časa suđenog. Ko želi nagradu na ovome svijetu, dat ćemo mu dio nagrade koji zaslužuje, a ko želi nagradu na onome svijetu, dat ćemo mu dio nagrade koji zaslužuje. I zahvalne ćemo nagraditi!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
Nijedna osoba neće umrijeti bez određenja Allahovog, časa suđenog. Tko želi nagradu na ovome svijetu, dat ćemo mu dio nagrade koji zaslužuje, a tko želi nagradu na onome svijetu, dat ćemo mu dio nagrade koji zaslužuje. I zahvalne ćemo nagraditi!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
Laatanaaki woŋki nde ki maayata si wanaa e duŋayee Alla. Ko winndaaɗum [waɗanaa] lajal. Mo faandike njoɓdi aduna, Men Okkay mo e mayri, mo faandi kadi njoɓdi laakara, Men Okkay mo e mayri, ma Men njoɓ jaarnooɓe ɓen.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
ქართული · Georgian
და არ ხდება ისე, რომ ვინმე მოკვდეს ალლაჰის ნების გარეშე — (სანამ არ ამოწურავს) მისთვის დადგენილ ვადას. და ვინც (თავისი ქმედებით) ამ ქვეყნის საზღაურს ისურვებს, ჩვენ მივცემთ მას (მაგრამ მარადიულ ცხოვრებაში მას წილი არ ექნება). ხოლო ვინც მარადიული ცხოვრების საზღაურს ისურვებს, ჩვენ მივცემთ მას, — და ჩვენ დავაჯილდოებთ მადლიერთ.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und keiner Seele ist es möglich zu sterben, außer mit Allahs Erlaubnis (und) nach einer befristeten Vorbestimmung. Wer nun die Belohnung des Diesseits will, dem geben Wir (etwas) von ihm; und wer die Belohnung des Jenseits will, dem geben Wir (etwas) von ihm. Und Wir werden (es) den Dankbaren vergelten.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Καμία ψυχή δεν πεθαίνει παρά μόνο με την άδεια του Αλλάχ, σε μια προδιαγεγραμμένη στιγμή. Όποιος αναζητά (μέσω των πράξεων του) την ανταμοιβή αυτού του κόσμου, θα του δώσουμε από αυτή (όσα του έχουμε προορίσει και δεν θα πάρει ανταμοιβή κατά τη Μέλλουσα Ζωή), και όποιος αναζητά (μέσω των πράξεων του) την ανταμοιβή της Μέλλουσας Ζωής, θα του τη δώσουμε. Και θα ανταμείψουμε τους ευγνώμονες.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
किसी प्राणी के लिए यह संभव नहीं है कि अल्लाह की अनुमति के बिना मर जाए। मृत्यु का एक निर्धारित समय लिखा हुआ है। जो दुनिया का बदला चाहेगा, हम उसे इस दुनिया में से कुछ देंगे, तथा जो आख़िरत का बदला चाहेगा, हम उसे उसमें से देंगे, और हम शुक्र करने वालों को जल्द ही बदला देंगे।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E nessuna anima muore, se non per volere di Allāh: termine stabilito. E chi desidera il premio terreno, gliene daremo una parte, ma chi preferisce quello dell’Aldilà, gliene daremo una parte e premieremo i riconoscenti.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
145. Ir niekas negali mirti, tik Allaho Leidimu ir nustatytu mirties laiku. O kas trokšta atlygio (šiame) gyvenime, Mes jam jį suteiksime. O kas trokšta atlygio Amžinybėje, Mes jam jį suteiksime. Ir Mes apdovanosime dėkinguosius.
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Русский · Russian
Не дано душе умереть иначе как с дозволения Аллаха в установленный срок. Кто желает награды этого мира, тому Мы дадим от неё, а кто желает награды Последней жизни, тому Мы дадим от неё. Мы воздадим благодарным.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
Ниједна особа неће да умре без Аллаховог одређења, часа суђеног. Ко жели награду на овоме свету, даћемо му дeо награде који заслужује, а ко жели награду на Будућем свету, даћемо му део награде који заслужује. А захвалне ћемо да наградимо!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na haikuwa kwa nafsi kufa isipokuwa kwa idhini ya Mwenyezi Mungu kama ilivyoandikiwa muda wake. Na mwenye kutaka malipo ya duniani, tutampa kwayo. Na mwenye kutaka malipo ya Akhera, tutampa kwayo. Na tutawalipa wenye kushukuru.
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Svenska · Swedish
Ingen människa dör förutom genom Guds beslut, och vid en fastställd tidpunkt. Den som vill ha detta livs belöning ska vi ge därav, och den som vill ha det kommande livets belöning ska vi ge därav. Och vi ska belöna de tacksamma.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
Hiçbir kimse Allah’ın izni olmadan ölmez. Ölüm belirli bir süreye göre yazılmıştır. Kim dünya menfaatini isterse, kendisine ondan veririz. Kim de ahiret mükâfatını isterse, ona da ondan veririz. Biz şükredenleri mükâfatlandıracağız.
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اردو · Urdu
بغیر اللہ تعالیٰ کے حکم کے کوئی جاندار نہیں مرسکتا، مقرر شده وقت لکھا ہوا ہے، دنیا کی چاہت والوں کو ہم کچھ دنیا دے دیتے ہیں اور آخرت کا ﺛواب چاہنے والوں کو ہم وه بھی دیں گے[1] ۔ اوراحسان ماننے والوں کو ہم بہت جلد نیک بدلہ دیں گے.
Translated by Muhammad Ibrahim Junagarhi, developed under the supervision of the Rowwad Translation Center. The original translation is available for the purpose of expressing opinion, evaluation, and continuous development.
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Easy-read (simplified)wamaa muhammadun illaa rasoolun qad khalat min qablihi r-rusulu afa'in maata aw qutila nqalabtum 'alaa a'qaabikum waman yanqalib 'alaa 'aqibayhi falan yadurra llaaha shay'an wasayajzee llaahu sh-shaakireen
DIN 31635wamā muḥammadun ʾillā rasūlun qad ḫalat min qablihi r-rusulu ʾafaʾin māta ʾaw qutila nqalabtum ʿalā ʾaʿqābikum waman yanqalib ʿalā ʿaqibayhi falan yaḍurra llāha šayʾan wasayaǧzī llāhu š-šākirīna
Talal Itani2012 Muhammad is no more than a messenger. Messengers have passed on before him. If he dies or gets killed, will you turn on your heels? He who turns on his heels will not harm God in any way. And God will reward the appreciative.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Muhammad is but a messenger, messengers (the like of whom) have passed away before him. Will it be that, when he dieth or is slain, ye will turn back on your heels? He who turneth back on his heels doth no hurt to Allah, and Allah will reward the thankful
Edward Henry Palmer1880 Mohammed is but an apostle; apostles have passed away before his time; what if he die or is killed, will ye retreat upon your heels? He who retreats upon his heels does no harm to God at all; but God will recompense the thankful
John Medows Rodwell1861 Muhammad is no more than an apostle; other apostles have already passed away before him: if he die, therefore, or be slain, will ye turn upon your heels? But he who turneth on his heels shall not injure God at all: And God will certainly reward the thankful
George Sale1734 Mohammed is no more than an apostle; the other apostles have already deceased before him: If he die therefore, or be slain, will ye turn back on your heels? But he who turneth back on his heels, will not hurt God at all; and God will surely reward the thankful
Talal Itani2012 How many a prophet fought alongside him numerous godly people? They did not waver for what afflicted them in the cause of God, nor did they weaken, nor did they give in. God loves those who endure.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And with how many a prophet have there been a number of devoted men who fought (beside him). They quailed not for aught that befell them in the way of Allah, nor did they weaken, nor were they brought low. Allah loveth the steadfast
Edward Henry Palmer1880 How many prophets have myriads fought against! yet they did not give way at what befel them in God's way Nor were they weak, nor did they demean themselves:- God loves the patient
John Medows Rodwell1861 How many a prophet hath combated those who had with them many myriads! Yet were they not daunted at what befel them on the path of God, nor were they weakened, nor did they basely submit! God loveth those who endure with steadfastness
George Sale1734 How many prophets have encountered those who had many myriads of troops: And yet they desponded not in their mind for what had befallen them in fighting for the religion of God; and were not weakened, neither behaved themselves in an abject manner? God loveth those who persevere patiently
Talal Itani2012 Their only words were, "Our Lord, forgive us our offences, and our excesses in our conduct, and strengthen our foothold, and help us against the disbelieving people."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 Their cry was only that they said: Our Lord! forgive us for our sins and wasted efforts, make our foothold sure, and give us victory over the disbelieving folk
Edward Henry Palmer1880 And their word was only to say, 'Lord, forgive us our sins and our extravagance in our affairs; and make firm our footing, and help us against the misbelieving folk
John Medows Rodwell1861 Nor said they more than this: "O our Lord! forgive us our sins and our mistakes in this our work; and set our feet firm; and help us against the unbelieving people
George Sale1734 And their speech was no other than that they said, our Lord forgive us our offences and our transgressions in our business; and confirm our feet, and help us against the unbelieving people
These figures count the words the translations share. They measure wording, not meaning, and they do not say which translation is right.
Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
0.66 on a scale
where 0 means identical wording and 1 means no shared words. It is
computed, not judged.
The page says a verse is worded differently only above the cut below. The cut is a stated convention, not a property of the text, and it can be changed.
The cut
0.644
Share of measured verses above it
33%
Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.78
Talal Itani · George Sale0.71
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.69
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.67
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.67
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.65
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.64
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.63
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.58
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.55
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Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
Method
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Source Tanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) · Uthmani, Version 1.1
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 ayahs. The bismillah is delivered as a separate `bismillah` attribute on ayah 1 and is NOT fused into the ayah text. 112 surahs carry one: every surah except al-Fatiha, where the bismillah is ayah 1:1 itself, and at-Tawba, which has none. Sourced from the XML output; the plain-text output of the same release DOES fuse it, which is defect D1.
CLEARED. Licence read verbatim from the block embedded in this very file. Ingested exactly as shipped: no normalisation, no stripping of marks, no Unicode recomposition.
Parsed structurally from the EPUB: an h3 names the surah, one p per verse with its number in its own span. An unnumbered p is the basmala and is not a verse, except in surah 1 where the basmala IS verse 1. 112 unnumbered paragraphs were found, which is 114 surahs less surah 1 and surah 9. Text is stored VERBATIM: NFC normalisation and XML entity unescaping only, because CC BY-ND forbids modification.
CLEARED on a licence read first-hand from the translator's own download page, not from an aggregator. Tanzil also hosts this translation, but under a blanket "non-commercial purposes only" term that directs the user to the translator or publisher for permission - a hosting disclaimer, not a grant - so the grant was taken from the licensor directly. The "God" edition was ingested; ClearQuran also publishes an "Allah" edition, differing in how the divine name is rendered, which is not ingested.
CLEARED ON THE WORK, WITH TWO RECORDED CAVEATS ON THIS COPY. (1) Rights basis is the expired copyright term, NOT the redistributing repository's licence. That repository dedicates its contents to the public domain under the Unlicense while also redistributing plainly in-copyright translations (Abdel Haleem, Saheeh International, The Study Quran), so it is dedicating rights it cannot hold and its blanket grant is not relied upon here. (2) The file declares its own upstream as tanzil.net, and Tanzil attaches a non-commercial condition to its TRANSLATION distributions, though not to its Qur'anic text. Since Pickthall's copyright has expired, nobody holds rights in these words and no licence is required from anyone; Tanzil's terms are a contract binding those who download from Tanzil, which we did not. The chain is nonetheless not spotless and Anwar may prefer a clean digitisation of the 1930 printing. NOT VERIFIED: that this digital text matches the 1930 first printing rather than a later revised edition. No page images were collated. Recorded as unverified rather than presented as established. SERVED TEXT DIFFERS FROM THE CITED FILE AT ONE VERSE, 37:97: the file reads "red-hotfire" (a glued token, also in Gutenberg #16955); the served row reads "red-hot fire", restored 2026-09-13 from Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (London: George Allen & Unwin, printed for Alfred A. Knopf; 1930), p. 460, XXXVII 97 - scan archive.org in.ernet.dli.2015.216140, PDF page 475; banked data/derivation-sources/pickthall-1930-dli-2015.216140-text.pdf (sha256 70e81146c97fa3a590243a82e04e349108546074787e2551a78c616202138870) on Anwar Malik's grant.
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 verses, keyed to mushaf order. The
bismillah is not fused into ayah 1: 1:1 carries it and no other verse
does. Verified against content check C3 at ingest.
CLEARED ON THE WORK. Term expired by every measure. The digital edition's upstream is not stated by the redistributor and the printing is unverified. No statement of purpose is recorded for Palmer because none was sourced from his own preface in this pass; nothing is asserted on his behalf.
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 verses, keyed to mushaf order. The
bismillah is not fused into ayah 1: 1:1 carries it and no other verse
does. Verified against content check C3 at ingest.
CLEARED ON THE WORK. Term expired by every measure. TWO edition caveats. (1) The upstream is not stated by the redistributor. (2) Rodwell's own edition PRESENTS THE SURAHS IN HIS OWN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, not the mushaf order — he says so in his preface. This digital text is keyed to mushaf order, so it derives from a restored-order printing (such as the Everyman edition) rather than from Rodwell's own arrangement. Which printing is not stated and has not been established.
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 verses, keyed to mushaf order. The
bismillah is not fused into ayah 1: 1:1 carries it and no other verse
does. Verified against content check C3 at ingest.
CLEARED ON THE WORK. Term expired by every measure. The digital edition's upstream is NOT STATED by the redistributor, so the printing it represents is unverified; Sale's text was reprinted and re-edited many times between 1734 and 1900. Recorded as unverified rather than assumed to be the first edition.
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 ayahs. The bismillah is delivered as a separate `bismillah` attribute on ayah 1 and is NOT fused into the ayah text. 112 surahs carry one: every surah except al-Fatiha, where the bismillah is ayah 1:1 itself, and at-Tawba, which has none. Sourced from the XML output; the plain-text output of the same release DOES fuse it, which is defect D1.
CLEARED. Parallel edition, held in ayah_text_variants. It sits alongside the Uthmani spine for search normalisation and is never used to correct it.